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Kristell

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  • See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is

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  • You still can, at least on Android, it's just less straightforward, and a bit less consistent

    https://adaway.org/

    For anyone curious, makes mobile gaming a whole lot less painful too

  • Europeans challenge US big tech with alternative app menu

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  • I... Don't know that I'd call Mullvad a good Chrome alternative. It's the Tor browser for clearnet. Vivaldi yes, Mullvad... I love it, I use it, it is not what people who use Chrome want, largely

  • I want to leave fb. Where is a similar place?

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  • Friendica will be the closest, and from my experience Hubzilla is similar enough. I've used Friendica extensively (see: @klymilark@coypu.fallcounty.omg.lol), and I've toyed with Hubzilla a bit. Friendica is less complicated in a user-facing way, and Hubzilla doesn't hide its features.

  • Ex MMO dev allegedly hacked 68 players for in-game gold worth over $700,000 and sold it for Bitcoin, UK court finds the gold legally counts as "property" and can be stolen

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  • Oh, this is gonna have implications

    Since they determined that in-game assets are real property of the player, basically every MMO is gonna need to change their ToS if they operate in the UK, because all of them that I've seen (and I've seen a lot) have something in there that "All assets are the property of $gameCompany" to stop these kinds of shenanigans. But if all it takes is being able to tie the game dollar to real dollars in a capacity officially supported by the devs... Yeah that's gonna be some lawsuits

  • I Am starting to actually get somewhat comfortable using emacs

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  • Honestly, I don't even code much, and I didn't at all when I downloaded emacs, but it's so damn useful that it stays open any time my PC is on. Only time I close it is to make sure that my files stay synced when I leave my laptop on, and do something on my desktop.

  • How would anarchism work?

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  • Y'know, given... gestures vaguely, I think that's not an anarchism problem.

  • How would anarchism work?

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  • Less surprising the more you know about autism, really

  • What are some of your earliest memories of school?

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  • Literally the first day. First thing another student said to me, actually: "Why're you so white?" Next is the same year, I got in trouble because another kid ran in front of me while I was rolling down a hill

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  • I've been playing the sims series since I was about the same age, sims 1 in... 2002? Though I haven't played it much. The fact that TS4 has been out for that long... Geez. So The Sims series as a whole. Would recommend at least giving S1 a shot if you haven't, it's fun in a charming kinda way. I've also played a lot of the sims games. All of the main PC ones, The Sims on ps1, The Urbz, Sims 2 on the PS2/GBA/PSP (all VERY different games to each other), sims Unleashed on the PSP, freeplay, the weird mobile app... Yeah. I'd also recommend checking out all of The Sims 2 console ports, because they're all weird as hell, and the stories in them are hilarious, and they're all very different to each other, so it's worth trying all of them if you end up liking one of them.

    If we mean same game the whole time, RuneScape. I started in 2007, and have played on and off since, though I haven't been back since they cancelled pride last year, and don't plan to go back.

    If we mean hours, either Mabinogi or Wurm Online. Mabi is a close second for how long I've played (started 2010), and I've probably got similar hour counts in Mabi as Wurm, I just can't confirm Mabi's playtime. I've got... 4500 hours ish in Wurm?

  • Although they have a collar adding a necktie doesn't really dress up pajamas

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  • Not anymore, but when collars were first added to clothing it was for comfort. It was in the mid 1400s, and clergy wore really stiff tunics with high necks, so they started wearing collared shirts underneath them for comfort. Shirts were also exclusively undergarments at the time.

    After those came the big ruffly Elizabethan collars for wealth/status symbols, then detachable collars (shirts were still underwear!), and then WWI happened, and soldiers were issued soft shirts instead of stiff outer clothes as outerwear since it was more practical. That then leads us to the collared shirts of today because that preference came to civilian life from the war.

  • Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days

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  • Oh that's gross as shit. Seems they have a general BYOD plan, but I guess that only applies if they have that model of phone.

    Didn't even realize that could be an issue, given I've used a PinePhone of all things on my carrier and it worked as fine as one could expect mobile Linux to work

  • Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days

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  • Yeah, I've tried finding alternatives, because having a second phone number was helpful, but... Nothin'. It's still the fake phone number I give out to companies to stop them spamming my phone though

  • Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days

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  • I've mostly used new budget phones, personally. My current phone is the most expensive one I've owned, and it was $400 xD I probably should do used more, but phones do usually last me a while, and I normally use a wallet case so they're fairly well protected against drops

  • Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days

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  • I haven't heard of a carrier that doesn't, at least personally. Then again, I've mostly used smaller carriers. Republic Wireless, FreedomPop, Mint, etc. I did use TMo for a while on a prepaid plan up until I got tired of the texting not working half the time

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  • Huh, I'd never actually noticed they were higher price. Most of the time I'm buying the phone from the manufacturer's website, and I at least didn't see carrier locked phones on Motorola's website when I got my last phone. Does make sense, though, given carriers will hope to subsidize some of the cost of the phone through the plan itself

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  • Kinda depends. If you buy the phone outright it's usually pretty similar in price, but most people finance, and then it is cheaper to buy separately because interest hits like a truck :D

    I know a lot of people who can't necessarily afford $200 minimum to drop on a phone, though, and that's for one that really starts to struggle after 2 years to do anything other than the most basic call/text functionality

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  • A 36 year old is supposed to act however they want xD There are some expectations about maturity in certain areas (knowing how to handle money, being better with social situations, etc), but stuff like posting online? My girlfriend has 2 Tumblr blogs because she kept hitting the limit of 50 queued posts a day, and she's 40. Boyfriend spends a lot of his time playing video games, and smoking, also 40. I'm 30, and spend a lot of my time playing video games, and on Lemmy/Friendica/general web stuff. Hell, other person in my life (same age as me) has bags decked out in sanrio stuff, with cutesy stickers on every electronic device they own. I know people in their 50s, and 60s who do all this same stuff, too.

    I have a couple ideas on what happens with that, though:

    Idea 1: I think it's partly perspective. When you're 18 5 years feels like forever. You were 13 then! At 23 you'll be old as shit compared to now! (Not really, you change a lot less per year as an adult than as a child, and teen).

    Idea 2: Different, but still perspective. My parents felt young as shit (my parents were 18, and 19 when I was born) to me because I wasn't raised by them. When I turned 20 my uncle, who would have been ~40, felt more like an older peer than a grown-up. Why? I wasn't raised by my parents! My grandma would have been 45 when I was born, and my great grandma (her mom) would have been 61. They're who raised me. I always felt I saw the adults around me as younger than all of my peers did, likely partly due to that. "The teacher's not old, my grand aunt still gets out there and mows an entire acre of grass every week, and she's 50! The teacher's not old at 28. That's my mom's age, and she's still basically a teenager!" sort of thinking.

    You kinda just... Never stop feeling like a teenager, in a way? You change a lot, you mature, you get jobs, etc. But I don't feel particularly "different" to how I did when I was 15. I still feel like me, just now I think 15 year old me was an idiot, one of my joints hurts sometimes, and I have carpal tunnel. You don't really feel old until your age starts making a noticeable dent in what you can do, which might be at 40, but might not be until 70.

  • Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days

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  • As a reminder to everyone:

    If you can afford it, you can 100% just... Buy a phone online and use it with your carrier. Make sure it's carrier unlocked, but yeah. All but one of my phones (bought in an emergency) was bought this way, and I've been through... 5 or 6? carriers and never had an issue

  • Here I stand, at 50, wishing I could shit as well as my dogs.

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  • This, though if you start it start kinda slow. 1tbsp per day for a week, up it to 2, then 3. I tried starting at 3 and it had some wild symptoms (most people just get gassy/bloated though)

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Kristell @herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol

    One Million Cannibal Ants Trapped in Soviet Nuclear Bunker Have Escaped

    www.newsweek.com /cannibal-ants-soviet-nuclear-bunker-1469573
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Kristell @herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol

    Trump withdraws U.S. from 66 “woke” international organizations & treaties

    www.lgbtqnation.com /2026/01/withdraws-u-s-from-66-woke-international-organizations-treaties/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Kristell @herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol

    Trump hosts “furry party” at Mar-a-Lago with dancers wearing bizarre dog heads

    www.lgbtqnation.com /2026/01/hosts-furry-party-at-mar-a-lago-with-dancers-wearing-bizarre-dog-heads/